Today's cake's 21st birthday, so we all went down to sentosa and threw her a surprise party! we were almost late la! haha.. all ended up frantically preparing the decor of our table with balloons and party paraphernalia. and for some unknown reason, the balloons kept bursting which pissed off the restaurant's manager.. he said we were frightening the kids and barred us from playing with any of the party paraphernalia cuz we didn't inform him we were holding a b day party. wat an ass.. pretty sure andrew did. anyways we were almost done, so we couldn't care less (infact many kids came up to us for balloons later on. huh!) So we managed to change into our old sec sch uniforms (yeah.. uniform party baby! my idea ok haha) in the nick of time and we all hid behind some low stone wall.. thot my super tight 60s styled sch pants was goin to split into 2 squating down like dat la! haha our efforts were futile tho.. we ended up the ones being surprised la.. andrew and cake came from the other direction.. haiz.. communication breakdown btw andrew and me la.. anyways, i had the honour of bringin cake and andrew their uniforms. took the liberty of getting matching outfits hehehe.. highlight of the party! cake got jealous dat he looked better in the hcjc skirt den she did hahaha.. same size mind you. but of course, his skirt wasn't fully zipped up or his shirt fully buttoned.. still i was surprised dat it fitted quite well. infact, i had worn them myself the nite before. not becuz im a twisted sicko haha but to make sure he could wear them.. we are abt the same build.. i didn't realise how foreign we men are to women's clothing till last nite! damn funny.. first i tried the largest mgs uniform i could dig out.. wore the blouse first, tight but still 'wearable' den i attempted to pulled over the pinafore.. it was sooo bloody tight i almost got trapped la.. almost like a straight-jacket haha.. and it was pretty hot with the dual-layer and all.. or maybe its was due to the struggle tryin to wear them. Xy's has since clarifed dat its the pinafore first den the blouse haha. see.. foreign. Up next was the hcjc uniform. 1st i wore the skirt with the zip in the front haha.. hey instinct ok? i immediately moved the zip to my ass and assumed i got it right. it was only a significant time later while 'admiring' myself when i realised an unusually large and ugly pleat running across the crotch area. hahah.. realised it was a pocket.. bingo! the zip's supposed to be on the left! haiz.. so complicated.. hahaha.. very enlightening experience. hah!

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Juz attended the ntu hall 2 pageant bash at butter factory. It was a really small event. expected la.. only a hall pageant.. ironically, most of the supporters aren't in hall 2 haha.. basically juz OG frens of the contestants. The event was kinda sucky, haha.. it was made worse when everybody left to club at other clubs once the event's programme was done (fyi it was abt 20mins). says alot of the appeal of butter factory huh? haha anyways, i still hav to applaud the contestants.. it ain't easy standing infront of a crowd, answering questions and tryin to impress etc. So, i was there to show my support for Andrew and he had to make an ass of himself!! hahaha.. ok, everyone screwed up their Q&A, nervousness i guess but Andrew and his female counterpart (look i've oredi forgotten her name! haha) went one step further. Each couple gets 15secs to make an impression, perform something.. 2 couples did a dance routine while another juz mixed a drink (what's up with dat??) but my dear andrew had to do a musical number.. They parodied some love song, the lyrics were quite funny, i read them before the event started. but boy oh boy.. his partner cannot sing!!! she's as tone-deaf as me! and mr andrew had to forget the lyrics!!! they were holding the lyrics in their hands but couldn't get it right.. hahaha.. oh mans.. immediately confronted him after the event haha.. y sing when she can't hold a tune i exclaimed!?! he explained dat he was running out of ideas as she kept rejecting his suggestions.. she didn't object to singing tho.. guess she thinks she can sing huh? heh. Quite a waste, cuz looking at the other guys, competition ain't dat tough. haha. luckily, the votes cast by us only amt to 30%.. hopefully he'll perform better at the real deal, some dinner and dance at goodwood park hotel.

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weird weird weird... its a tues and yet i surprisingly bumped into more pple i've ever bumped into in town! i think.. First off was, jeremy khoo my barker classmate. I haven't seen this guy in person for several yrs! we chat online from time to time, but haven't found the time to meet up. So i had juz alighted from the mrt and was on the escalator up to orchard road when i see him coming down the other way, shouted out to him and he told me to wait. So he came up and we chit-chatted for awhile. The second was juz mins later on my way to paragon. Bumped into hansel, also my barker fren, who incidently was in the choir with jeremy! learnt dat he was leaving for the US today to study liberal arts! Finally, bumped into andrew and cake at cine! not a real biggie tho, since i met up with them last fri and will be seeing them tmr as well as the coming fri! hahaha..

anyways, i went to town to meet up with my cuzzie, Bev. She juz returned from the UK, so brought her out for a simple dinner and a movie. We caught the lake house which is a movie that totally makes no sense! hahaha.. Bev was equally if not more dumbfounded by the way the story was told.. but like she said,' lucky only 7 dollars' hahah. I feel the movie would hav been better and more touching if he had really died dat fateful valentines. But i guess dats too sad for hollywood execs. Oh wells.. looking forward to seeing andrew catwalk! hahah

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Yay.. went back to camp today to collect my IC and my barang barang from my bunk. which means i ord-ed a day earlier hehehehe... may only be 24hrs but its always satisfying to milk the saf! haha.. it wasn't all smooth sailing tho. i returned to find my cupboard locked!!! i nvr lock my cupboard, immediately knew someone new has taken over my bed. Unfazed, i simply headed down to the office to find out who the new guy was. I obtained his hp no and rang him up. Low and behold, he left camp for a medical appt!!!! wtf! he is an absolute idiot! i wud hav appreciated if he told me dat he'll be locking my stuff in my cupboard so i wud know better to check if he's ard before making the long journey down to camp! he could have left my stuff in the small wooden cupboard which has no lock! they say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. well i beg to differ. ORDing men like me, turn into hungry beasts when the fateful day of collection comes, so expect all hell to break loose when we're deprived! hell hath no fury like an IC-less ORD personnel, i say!

anyways, waiting for him to return was out of the question and im pretty sure he wudn't want to travel all the way back either. So he gave me permission to break his lock. His first smart move. hell hath no fury like an IC-less ORD personnel

Unfortunately, my unit doesn't hav a industrial metal cutter which wud hav made breakin the lock ABC. I started off with a fire extinguisher. tv makes it look real easy haha.. the locks r always rusty and can be broken with a couple of hits. I swung away for a good ten mins! ok, i didn't quick freeze the metal to make it brittle. Afterall, i was in a camp, and unauthorised use of an extinguisher is a chargeable offence. hey im a good boy. ok, so the extinguisher didn't work so i headed down to look for tools. Managed to get hold of a spanner, a screwdriver and a hammer. These r pretty able tools to break a lock. but his bloody lock is so thick and strong! (the beauty of english huh? a mere changed of a letter, say a 'L' to a 'C' , can change the whole meaning of a single line! hahaha) anyways, back to the story. Desperate times call for desperate measures. it was obvious the lock will nvr be broken with brute force. So i changed my focus to the latch. After a few swings from my trusty entinguisher, managed to weaken the metal significantly. Afterwhich, i applied my knowledge on what i believe is called, metal fatigue? haha juz tryin to sound intellectual, when infact we've all experienced it before with breaking paperclips into two by bending back and forth repeatedly. So there i was, twisting the ledge back and forth with my spanner for an eternity (ok la 3 mins?) when i finally saw a crack! the rest was academic. juz shaped the metal so i could squeeze the lock through. in tv land it takes 1 min.. in reality? 45. think i've been watching too much Alias. haha

oh ya, gettin back my ic has only reminded me of one thing. My photo looks like cock! the darn hair! my hair is oredi bad enuf.. they had to screw it up with bad printing.. sigh.. and i look so young haha.. i look ang moh too..hmmm...

anyways meeting up with bev and shirleen tmr! time for more gossip gossip gossip!!! see ya

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Today, i went for my ord ffi (juz a check-up to certify u left the army fit so u can't blame saf later haha). Got quite pissed over it... i forgot how inefficient and retarded the organisation can get at times.. I wasn't sure wat time my dental was, so played safe and arrived in camp ard 9.. I registered and was told they only see ord personnel after 1030. fine by me, so i scooted off to find some of my army buddies still serving (heheheh) and returned at 1030. my dental check-up was quick, abt 2 mins? afterwhichi collected some cert. and headed over to medical department. to my astonishment, the medic tells me they only see ord personnel after 230!!!! wtf man! dats freaking 4hrs later la.. how spastic can they get... first and foremost.. my 1030am appt was allocated.. i didn't choose dat time. infact the date of my check-up was also decided for me. So who in the right mind wud set the two departments time slot for ord ffi so different, knowing that both wud be done one after the other. so infruriating! thankfully i'm not studying or working yet... wud have been more pissed if they were wasting precious time.

anyways, it was time for a contigency plan. I initially planned to head down to queensway shopping centre after the check-up to do some shoe shopping, but with the stupid arrangement decided to do it during the 4hrs. fortunately, managed to even get a lunch date with my cousin, kaiwen. i guess the lure of swedish meatballs at ikea is juz too strong! haha they were indeed delicious! been yrs since i ate them.. didn't manage to find any shoes of my liking tho.. this is becoming a serious prob! i really need a new pair.. i'm over using my only pair now! not gd.. not gd at all! i did get other stuff tho.. haha.. 2 tees and a pair of street soccer shoes. my very first pair infact! abt time i got the soccer shoes... been creating holes in my BATAs and track shoes all my life!

after sending kaiwen home, i reached the medical centre ard 3pm. registered and proceeded to wait for my queue no to be called. nearly 45 mins later, the medic calls me. sounding very apologetic, he said,' i'm sorry. ur form was supposed to be processed. but it was juz left on a table and the doc has to leave soon. could u come back another day?' another day?!?! i freaking blew my top la! first it was the 4hr wait, now u're asking me to come back another day? wtf. no way josé! so i got my way and did the usual height/weight, blood pressure (which was higher due to certain circumstances haha) , urine and eyesight tests before seeing the doc. I enter his room and he only asks me one single question. 'Any tatoos or scars?' the answer was no, and i left. wth man. if it was this simple and fast, y ask me to come another day? can't imagine how pissed i'll be if i had returned another day for a 10min check-up!

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Huff! its been a while since i blogged (a very familiar line indeed) oh wells, its been a very 'happening' last 10 days! meeting up wif peeps, tennis, soccer and of course, some shopping! its been activity after activity till today... which is kinda ironic.. since today is National day, everyone's free, people shud be asking me out! haha.. so ya.. today kinda sucked.. if only i could have wat i had the past 10 days till the day i fly off.. idealistic dreams

Caught tokyo drift yesterday with xiaohui.. we were deciding btw dat and my super ex-gf.. we shud have watched the latter.. tokyo drift is a b-grade movie.. pls be warned! the storyline was bad, very bad actually.. one of those ah beng movies i cannot appreciate.

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Today i discovered only the second strand of white hair i've ever had! more or less from the same spot.. my first was earlier in the yr.. its really strange cuz i nvr ever sprout white hair.. haha.. aging? furthermore, i'm hardly leading a stressful life rite now! suppression maybe?

Anyways, i had a great day today! finally met up with my chidhood fren, Giles. We haven't seen each other since sec sch.. dats like freaking 3yrs w/o communication! I've known Giles since nursery would you believe it? He's my oldest friend. I tot i saw the last of him when we left kindergarden.. but low and behold.. i see him at ACJS! infact, quite a no. of my kindergarden frens went to js.. always found dat odd.. anyways.. Giles orso went to barker... infact he was my tennis doubles partner in the sch team. But we were often in different classes and when he went to poly we totally loss communication.. but can't be too hard on ourselves, we're weren't really in the cell phone and internet' age.. all i had was his home no. which i got during pri sch haha.. but thanks to friendster, he contacted me last yr and we xchanged hp nos. its taken me a yr to finally set up a meeting, quite guilty abt dat... but oh wells.. juz glad i finally did.

But before i continue, juz like to add dat 'Giles' is such a unique name rite? nvr heard of anyone else with dat name. think its the most unique one i've ever heard.. more unique den mine.. which is really funny and special in a way to me.. dat both of us have unique names haha.. and for those who r wondering how its pronounced, its: ja-isles. something like dat la..

ok, back to the main story. So, we met up for some tennis at my house. Couldn't believe i was nervous la! almost as nervous as a first date! didn't help dat he was late! haha.. he looked and sounded different.. his small eyes seemed smaller! haha and his voice is alot deeper den i had remembered. but other den dat, he was the same old Giles i've known. needless to say, he beat me in tennis.. he's always been the more consistent one while i was the one more prone to making errors haha.. plus he's fitter den me now, being in army and all haha. tho the tennis was fun, finally able to spar with someone ard my standards, the catching up was wat i really yearned for. I was surprised to find out his elder sis studied psych and is currently doin some research at NIE! It was heartwarming to noe dat tho we've not spoken for yrs, there wasn't any akwardness at either end. I'm thankful for that. Hopefully it won't be too long till we meet again.

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